Description
Tamar Ross is Professor of Jewish Philosophy (Emerita) at Bar-Ilan University. She has written extensively on the Musar movement, the thought of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, the ideology of Mitnagedism, and the relationship of Orthodoxy and feminism. Conversant with classical rabbinic sources and analytic philosophy, she champions the notion of cumulative revelation in pursuit of a non-foundationalist notion of truth, both religious and scientific. Responding to the feminist critique, she articulates an original and constructive Jewish theology sympathetic to the later stages of Wittgenstein's philosophy of language and to complementary motifs in Jewish mysticism. Her philosophy of halakha similarly builds on post-positivist legal theory, demonstrating the transformative influence of women's direct input on a legal system previously managed exclusively by men.
Table of Contents
The Contributors
Editors' Introduction to the Series
Tamar Ross: An Intellectual Portrait, Ronit Irshai
The Cognitive Value of Religious Truth Claims: Rabbi A.I Kook and Postmodernism, Tamar Ross
The Word of God Contextualized: Successive Hearings and the Decree of History, Tamar Ross
Religious Belief in a Postmodern Age, Tamar Ross
Modern Orthodoxy and the Challenge of Feminism, Tamar Ross
Interview with Tamar Ross, Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
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